Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 1, 1900, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAII I B THERSDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1900 PRESIDENT SCHURMAN SVIEW Head of Cornell Un versity Discusses Ques- tions of National Importance. FUTURE OF DISCUSSES Polnts Ont that President MeKinley Has Only Followed Prec dent of Demoe Predeccsso There is no the Un tes who is Yetter g to speak with au thotity on the PEllippine question or, lndesd o matters of almost kind aftecting the policy of rican nation, than President Jacob Gould Schurman of Cormell university of ltbaca, N. Y., President Schurman, it will be remembered, was president of th commission appointed to visit Pl ippines and {nvestigate condit in those ode, and what ne has to say on this point s re of his personal obser vations. As the head of one of the greatest institutions of learning In the Empire state. he is naturally obliged to keep closely in touch with political sentiment both state and vational, and his views are for this reason, especially worthy of con- «.deratton. President Schurman was terday and was interrogated bad been doing in Nebraska sald . “What have I been dolng in Nebraska? 1 have been speaking—in Lincoin Monday evening and Geneva yesterday, where 1 bad very large and enthusiastic audiences From gentlemen of influential position in the republican party | gathered the im pression that this state was likely to give McKinley a majority. 1am golng to speak fu Weeping Water tonight, and for rest of the week in Indiana “The state of New York is as safe for McKinley as the stato of Massachusetts st look at the facts in the Mc- Kluley received four years ago a majori of over 268,000 votes. There may have eu some slight change since that time on the part of demoerats who desired to get back into their own organization. The change, however, is not large and it is fully offset by workingmen and farmers who are mow returning to the republican party which they deserted four years ago in the stress of bard times, thinking that in Bryan's tree silver mosirum they inight find a cure for the evils under which they labored. Apart from these changes the McKinley majority of four years ago re- mains unaffected. Republicans do not claim a5 large a majority as of that time, but the most rellable sources clalm a majority at least 100,000 Brya asy Am the city yes « to what be In reply be of Bad Break. Mr. Bryan's speeches in New York City In my judgment, have contributed to en- ance the republican majority. The single tement which he made in New Y. Great 1s Tammany and Croker is its Prophet’'—identified Bryanism with the worst cnemy of free iostitutions In the United States and has, as a result alienated hundreds of thousands of inde- pendent and democratic voters who are desiring, If possible, to get back to their party. No party can carry the state of w York without the support of the inde- | pendent men in both parties and the mug- | wumps. These elements, which were for- | merly not disposed to support McKinler, have been swung over by resistiess | force through the effect of Mr. Bryan's identification of his party with that of | Richard Croker. In addition to the effect of his speeches in New York City, we must reckon as adverse to Mr. Bryan's cause his efforts in New York state to stir up rivairy, dissensions and class apimosities. which have been resented by decent people in both parties. “As to the issue of imperialism there was some danger of that a few months ago, but as the facts come to be better understood the danger is disappearing. or bas, perbaps, completely disappeared. There are in the | state of New York independent men in both | parties who are opposed 1o the annexation of the Phillippine Islands, but they bave come to see that the taking of the archipelago was 4 Decessary consequence of the war with Spain, and since the ratification of the reaty, by Mr. Bryan's aid, absolutely noth- 2g remaived to the administration but to +nforce our uational autbority in this pew part of our territory. ““The question of the future of the Philip- pines is not up in this campeign. The only | question is whether we shall maintain the suthority of the United States in a piece of rritory Mr. Bryan helped to anoex to the mation and on that issue the people of New York state bave made up thelr mind and will certainly support President Me- Kinley.” Democratic Precedents Followed. PHILIPPINES | the | | nation shirk a single one of these obliga- Philippine islands by Jeffers t Louisiana in 1803 e essors wh gxation ountry abitants T the with the power ex uld send a great different could have tribes could have been made t their mission—which . very m then the answer of all but one at they h ican sovereignty or ferent to the matter have been the Tags whose of tion would bave deen due to they tribe numbering desired ther a0 would hav in Amer absolutely in o one except a £00,0 people over > propos ment e Philippines o inos always fail to specify face they wean. In general, they assun |that the 1500000 Tagalos, from whom | Aguinaldo bas secured bis insurrectionists | represent all the tribes and all the peoples of the archipelago. No assumption could |40 greater violence to the facts ““There are scores of tribes who do mot understand the language of the Tagalos and whose hatred toward them is of the bitterest type. 1f this country Invested Aguinaldo and his band of insurrectionists with soverelgn of the island tribal warfare would fol- low the sa'ling away of our navy and then {a few months of anarchy would have suc- 4 and the interventionm of the great owers of Europe for the protection o their citizens and their properttes have become indispensable. Filipinos' Only Hop only hope for a free |1or Philippine commonwealth i tutelage and protection of the States for a sufficlent period to enable the tribes, who are now rated by diversi- ties of language and sentiment and physi- cal obstacles, to come together and galn | an experience for & generation or two in | the practice of self-government, with which | heretofore they bave had absolutely noth fog to do. 1 would Iike to say for myself I am no Jiogo and mever have been an Asiatic ex- pansionist. 1 am oze of those who, had the Phillppine islands been offered to the United States three years ago as & g.ft, would bave voted against taking them. But the islands bave come under our sovereignty as a result of the war with Spain, azd in virtue of the | ratification of the treaty which Mr. Bryan helped the administration to secure—which without Mr. Bryan's help could not have been ratified. 1 believe in the nation doing its duty with regard to them. “My present sentiments on the Philippine | question are determined soleiy by the facts of the case—namely, by the circumstances of the inhabitants of the archipelago and by the obligations towards them and towards the nations of the world which the United States assumed in the treaty of peace which | it made with Spain. I would not have our er to the The self-govera- der the United | | | tions even though the performance of them requires us to hold the Philippine Islands. We must do our national duty.and trust that 1a doing o we shall come out all right. “I pever met, in all the time I was In the | Philippiné islands, among men of the army, the navy or among the civillans, any one | who believed that we could at present give | up the islands to the inhabitants, or any | portion, of them, and yet I met a great| many who would have been glad to do so | had the circumstances permitted, Mission in the Philippines. “Qur mission in the Poiiippine islands at the present time is to suppress the re- maining embers of the insurrection, to es- tablish peace, to make life and property secure, to found schools for the people, to guarantee religious liberty and to give the inbabitants their first lessons in self- | goverament, which, begioning, with vil- | lages and towns, may gradually be extended to the provinces and ultimately to the general government for the entire archi- | pelugo. | “From the polittcal point, however, aur | mission {s to train the Filipinos to govern themsclves and the flag stands for self- government in the Philippines as it stands tor self-government In Nebrask “What about trusts? Mr. Br. speaking much on trusts throughout eastern tour, but intelligent people recognize that, if you mean by trusts great combina- lons of capital, they are & Decessary pha: our modern industrial civilization; an | indispensable result of the use of steam and electricity—for, like the introduction of | ‘It is charged that the republican policy in the Philippines involves tyranmy and violates the principle of the consent of the | goveraed:” “It is true that the republicans did mot k the consent of the inhabitants of the The greatest parade of the campaign is the sound money parade booked for New York City pext Saturday. Advance estimates of the number of voters who will be, in line Is 159,100. The wholesale dry goods trade expects to turn out 37,000 strong and the paper trade mext with 25,000 men. Genersl Auson G. McCook will command the great pageant, which will be reviewed by Gov- ernor Roosevelt. There will be no postpone- meat on account of weather, but in case of rain the number who will tura out will be reduced and should the weather be generally unfavorable organizations are asked to bold themselves in readiness to start at an earlier hour than is set in the schedule, which 1s laid out in anticipation of fine weather and ranks at least as large as those of the famous parade of 1595, In that great demonstration there were 110,000 marchers. making it the largest in the history of the metropolis. The purpose of the managers of mext Saturday's parade is_to make It surpass the parade of four years ago and they are confident it will break the record by mearly 50,000. From almost every win- dow along the line of march, from sta from lines stretched across street aund ave- nue, from roof to cornice, from the historic Battery to the Bronx, from the Hudson te the waterway which skirts Manhattan ls- lacd on its eastern shore, will the nationa emblem be unfurled. Not less significant is the fact that every person in line will be a voter. The windup of the campaign in Chicago. Saturday next, promises to be much livelier than in New York City, inasmuch as both parties will be in the whirl. Bryan will be there to stir anew the waning hopes of fu- sion and give the fight & semblance of ac- tivity r years ago the republicans practically closed their campaign before Mr Bryan returned to Chicago for the windup and they had nothing o offset the efforts of the demucratic candidate. This year the reverse will be the order. There will be 250 republican speakers in the city and ounty holdiug meetings every night and there will be no cessation of activity uatil the votes are in the boxes. “There is only one thing about it that 1 don't understand, “says a New York busi- Bees maz, ‘apd (hat is why all bands machinery 100 years ago, they bave some perniclous resulu The tendency u3- doubtedly is to cheapen the cost of co modities to the consumer; to supply the workicgman with permanent employmen! and at a higher wage than he could getlgbove its don’t vote the republican ticket. Of course, as everybody kmows, the great majority of the business men of the country McKinley. One reason for this is th: bave bad under his administration four years of prosperity, and they look, usder a con- tinuance, of it for four years more. But it's been the same with everybody The merchants have sold lots of goods and dope well, but they couldn't have sold these thiogs unless there bad been custo- mers to buy them, and the customers couldn't have bought upless they had money to buy with. Ot course, as everybody knows, the pur- chases made by people of moderate or limited or small means are in the aggre- e, as compared with those of so-called rich people, as thousands of dollars to one The great bulk of the country’s frade comes trom the people of moderate means, and the present great prosperity of business io this country means that they are all earning money and have all got money spend. Not the business men alone, but all hands the country over are do'ug well. ‘Why under the canopy any workingman, so-called—1 do not know why we say work- ingman, for every man in this coustry that amounts to & bill of beans, rich or poor, is a workingman—why upder the camopy any man that depends for his support upon his daily labor should ever think of such 4 thing as taking even the chance of up- setting all this by voting for somebody else I certainly cannot understand. 1 should think the business men and laboring men and_all hands would get in and whoop be: up for McKinley for all they knew bow The democrais of Massachusetts easily daunted by politieal failure. state election of 1558, ome year & Treat Paine was defeated for gov- erncr ou the democratic ticket by €.,000 majority. In the state election preceding Alexander D. Bruce of Law- rence, the democratic candidate for gov- ernor, was defeated by §4,000 majority. In the state election of the year before that George Fred Williams was defeated by 85 000 majority. Notwithstanding these di couragements the democrats of Massachu- setts have renominated Mr. Paine for gov- ernor this year and are bopeful that be will are not In the Robert | publi | could Be secured by over all the other peoples | would | 1ooks |workingmen this remed eve th luced a bill amendment tew to the rex ans Bave put on the stat law w have for legisiation- by securing the sar tion and regulation of trusts as banks now subjected to. It the public could only be informed of the value of trust stocks and what they really represented, or how much water di- uted them, the chief evils of which the complain in conmection with the trusts would disappear. This information the public if trusts ation and inspection benefice are were subjected to vis ifke ban “The republicans have the real remedy for the evil. Mr. Bryan's remedy is either ual of uncomstitutional “Mr. Bryan adds that the trusts bave been created by a protective tarift which he therefore proposes to repeal. He over- the fact that in repealing t duced by trusts he w ess of thousands of producers in com- ties which have no commection w trusts b trusts have not been produced by tariff s demonstrated by the free trade England, during the last decade, there has been a faster devel- opment of tru an in this country un- der a protective tariff WORKINGMEN TO Meel tin OLD MEETING. ea 1o Meet at Crei Thursday N The laboring men of tb ¥ are laying large plans for their qwn private demonstra- tion, to be held in Creighton hall to- pight. Republicans from every labor unfon in the city will be present, as weil zed occupations. as hundreds from unorge Shrum of the Bricklayers' union will 0. P. act as pres ac mittes of fift o stage The speaker of the evening will be E. Rose- er, and his address will be supplemented by briet remarks from E. D. Mullery. molder; J. B. Schupp, cigarmaker; J. L. Baird, secretary of the Central Labor union, and W. B. Christie, carpenter, all Others than laboring men will be present and the committee expects to fill the hall to the doors. The committee {n charge of the meeting made up entirely of laboring men, fs tollows C. Snyder, Peter Shurkey Charles Willtam Charles Leeder. Thomas Stewart. John Larson. Charles Russell Burt Carmelleo. Fred M. Youngs W. H. McKenna. Robert White. George Parker O. C. Schwerm. ‘{illam Parrott. F. Btarbuck. Robert_Christte. R. E. Rowland Joel Johnson. Paul Seward 8 ¥ M. J. O'Connell 3. E. Rollo, I J. Copenharve. Fred Hoye. Scott Jackson. Thomas Falconer. Wiiliam Harris. Ed Augustine. Fred M. Knox Herman Auerswall. Harvey Easton M. Y. Starbuck. C. E. 'Watson. Robert Lynn. 8. L. Rowzee. F. §. Devon J. P. Redman John Scott Roy Hatton C. E. Sparks. E A Willis. Thomas McGos Bert Bush George Vawter. William Richeliea. R. B. Carter. B. H. Betebender. Harry Brewer. John Lynch. John_ Innis. Frank Kelpin. em. Politieal Notes. The state republican committee has sent its last budget of literature and the shipping department has been number of the typewriting man Lindsay's offic pensed with as the 0 a close. ddent Houston of the Traveling s Republican club has conferred with & number of simflar organization through- cut the state looking to their attendance at the final republican rally n October §. He has assurunce that delegations from Hastings, Grand-1sland and probably Nor. folk will be present us well as the larg. Traveling Men's Marching club of Lincoln. Secretary Paul Seward of the McKinley and Roosevelt County Central club s played an odd brass key at the county headquarters yesterday which formerly unlocked the ‘safe at the old Herndon house, now the Union Pacific headquarters, when James T. Allan, Mr. Seward's uncie, was proprietor. The safe was nightly made the treasury in those days of of dollars’ worth of gold nd th . work is being brought dust and nuggets committes Wil mispend the fes desk as 4 mascot. be defeated by & majority smaller than was recorded againet him last year. The dem- ocratic candidate for state auditor in Mas achusetts this year is Elbridge Gerry Brown, who was a populist candidate for governor in 1895, baving been prior to that a greenm- backer. He is now a democrat, the distinc- tion between democrats and popullsts in Massachusetts belng no longer very clear. Although Montana was a hot four years ago. almost no mention of free silver is heard this year. Local issues— chiefly the fight between Clark and Daly, the rival democratic leaders—occupy all the attention of voters. The republicans are upited and the prospects for Semator Car- ter's re-election by the coming legislature are reported to be very bright. The elec- torial vote is conceded to Br: for the Clark and Daly men bave united on an elec- toral ticket. The cattlemen and ranchmen are pearly all republicans. A large fol- lowing of democrals of both factions is found among the miners, who are numerous in the state. Iver state The voters of the 1k comgressional istrict of Missouri are revelling in vaude- ville- entertainment, free of all expense. The democratic candidate is the proprietor of » big vaudeville theater in St. Louls. Every night now, it 1s reported, ke takes bis stand near the door of his playhouse and when & man seeks admission he bas only to show that Le is a voter in one of the wards of the district and the doorkeepers come for- ward and welcome him within. All others pay. Vaudeville is declared to be a win- vicg card with many voters in this Missouri constituency. St. Joseph, Mich., s sti political issue. It not imperialism or trusts or silver, but the county clerkship Berrien county s a refuge for numerous couples desirous of matrimony. Excursions are run from Chicago to St. Joseph azd the clerk of the county recelves the fees as bis emoluments. Tor every couple f nished with a license be gets $2 and in the course of & year takes in & lot of money, as incomes go 1 that part of the world The republican and democratic eandidates running seck and Deck and the county ve with excitement over the outcome ed by & Dpovel it thousands | At Shield Ba convicted by the predecessor ¢ and setting dence was ught SHIELDS AND THE CAMBLERS 2 Mr le Record of His Credit ol A pew 1n. - al ase Shields ¢ and his ¢ \ nolle prosequ his tent and ourse there to the fact defended him none other ds and SSES THOUGH GUILT IS CONCLUSIVE Dictate ¥ as His Depatics— welf Ret Gamb) Gamblers \ttorne b by 8t es which h Shields see known ases. A aha gamblers had been | aey Baldrige and * upon evidence to a conviction arraigned, a party nded Judge Bax- W. Bhield wh became county attor. former client was . re implicated ware likewise xte point of re gamblers gar ete in t George th ag his the time was dominated by a gang of and their satellites. The coms hasdled bis campaign was made uj same gamblers’ crew. The money elected him was levied from the gamblers And when be w elected the gambiers dictated his deputies and the ployes of bis office While he is pretending to be a foe the gambling fraternity he bas had dozens | cases in which persoms were charged |J. Dunn with gambling and setting up gambling | prosecution, and when he propounded ques- devices during his Incumbency t can- |tions to him received only the answer Bot point to a single conviction except on | refuse to testify the plea of guilty, while on the other nate myself hand two-thirds of the offenders were| With th {turned loose at bie or refusal |own chiet prosecute. o breaking Dismisses Cases by Wholesale. continued h Here 15 a list of the cases ju Which pe nd holds cons were accused of gamdling or seiting |preseat tim up gambling devices, taken from the re ow | ords of the police court, where the prelimi- nary hearing was had. L the instances in which the prisoners were discharged on motion of the county attor- ney and judge ‘or himself the i able | | desire Shields must bave cherished for the | conviction and punishment of bls gambl [ triends n M tree Scandal of Deputy Da t scandal of Shields' term came sp in conection with the raid on gambling rooms run by CIiff Cole. In April of last year the place was raided and the arraign The | Judge to Shiel that put his own deputy, 1 on the stand to testify for the conclusive evidence puty was particeps c inis the gambling laws, he still m as his confidential assistant n that position at the The only inference is that connection with blers such that he dare ith ervices and that if re-elected he | will reappoint the man who refused | testify because he feared he would incrimi- | nate himselt. The insincerity of [ his 8 Shields’ declamation st the gamblers in shown again in the Omaba siot machine episcde. In the spring of last year evidence was placed ln bis hands so convincing in its nature that he drew up WArrants agaipst the proprie- tors of sixty-one automatic gambling slot machines, but before he ha issued something happened to change his mind The fact that a levy aplece on each machine had been m tly before to sbield them from prosecution may or may ot bave had direct connmection with it But although the es have been run. usly during the inter- have never been served e proprietor interfered with * Continuous Masquerade. Shields’ promises and thre been made purely for His record discloses that case has he made an hoo them out He and his ass been the paid gamblers. Shie the notorious Jack —Harry Gibson, Theoda ing gamblil 159 harged with Keep d dismissed motic 11, 189—Harry Git fiarged with k Februal with on_motio February keey ry 2, charged with ‘ nd dismissed for public absorption. in not a single effort to carry nts orneys bave for years of well known was the wttormey for Morr n, one of the proprietors of the Diamond gambling re- sort, and in June, 1896, appeared for him and fled an answer in & foreclosure suit in the United States circuit court in a case entitled, Northwestern Mutual dismissed i Reaben H ing fixt ey, charge es and disch: 0 of coumty attorney. A 1666 Jackeon. John Wright charged with gambiing and discharged June 1, 18—Jacob L.z, J Teolfachia: Schafter, charged with exhibitis O abiing device aui discharged on mo- tion of county attors May 15 18%—John Charles Thomas, And W Peyton, ch with playing ga o d_dischasy O ine " AiXgultus Areitachke. Herman Schaffer. Jacob Lutz, charged with keeping gambling device and discharged June 28, 18%—Isaac Stone, 0. H. Howard charged with keeping gambling room and dischargea y July € 180811 1. Hiliman, gambling for livelihood and Ty €-Frank N Johnson, Fred H L. charged with playing game for m discharged 2, Brown, L. and, Georg, Willlam Ste July 12 Ed Smith rged with gambling tion of coul at- y 3, “The Life Insurance company against Felicia H Little et al.” He is also one of the regu- larly retained lawyers of Charles White another member of the Diamond gambling combine, while his chief deputy, Dunn, ba appeared for the defense in 80 many gamb- ling cases it would occupy too much sp to enumerate them. Shields in the role of an exterminator ot gambling is as great a farce as Smyth in tke role of trust-smasher. . Charles Ed Coleman charged with 1 LINCOLN Rep pect to C y It “We expect to wire you on election night charged with keep- | that North Platte has returned a repub- discharged o0 |y on ‘majority sald County Judge A S Baldwin of that city, who has made a careful canvass of Lincoln county as se retary of the county republican eommit- tee. “The town shows on the poll & Me- Kizley léad of 150, and we hope to do even better tham that. Out in the county PROSPECTS IN COUNTY. ing ‘gambll | motion of count; | July &1 and | Frank Ford, | keeping gambl on motion of county attorney. September —J. W s, . W Charles And: n, Louis Andrews Sommers, Bert Day. H. M. Chub Godard, ' A. W. Light, charged mbling &nd discharged on motl ounty attorney x5 September 1898—John Killlan, Pa Matthews, Nick Ball, Virgil, Orane O harged With Kkeeping gambling fixtures and discharged " 1 1590—Sigwart Kohn, charged erv tickets and discharged villlam Donnelly, Frank Homer Coftee H A F with has the outcome in its hands ago we gave Hayward a majority of ome end last fall the republicans won by sixty- five for supreme judge, s0 we have plenty of reason to feel confident. “Senator Owens bas more of a task for re-election, as his district includes D: son county and rums to the Wyoming line, but he has every prospect of winaing. Evans also bas to cover most of the ern part of the United States in present- ing his candidacy for the legislature to those eighteen counties, but he is get- |ting satistactory results. “The balance of power ia North Plate les with the railroad men, all of whom | have good jobs and get wages which sty them. They are a hard class of men to guess about, but if we can believe the unanimous reports from shops and yar: alike McKinley will draw most of their votes Two years enis d discharged ces and discharged. e 2f"joon Tom Eldridge, C. H. Rags- | dale, E. H. Guinn, charged with keeplng gambling devices and discharged for want ORI UNSY 0. Samuelson, charged with® keeping gambling devices and dis- rged for want of prosecution uly 13, 1990—Carl Tandberz. Oscar Swan- son, Oscar Wilson, O. Hansey, Gus John- son. A Simonson, Cari Holstein. J. Benson, | A 'Nelson, O. S. Plerson, Frank Sohn charged with gambling and discharged for want of prosecution. Same Story in District Cour The records of the county court and dis- trict court all tell the same story. The only gamblers whom Shields has prose- cuted were ome OF two who refused to cough up to the gang of blackmalilers that backed him for the position, while those law-breakers who were friendly to the gang and had shared their profits with it of Tr were turned loose with his assistance. | Ceived in allgh v suburban train One of the most Gagrant cases is that of | berwe Accident Proves Fata CHICAGO, Oct. 3L.—Frank J. Carpenter, | treasurer and general manager of the Nye & Jenks Grain d m t the Board of Trade Centra. crushed THE FIRST BORN is ?’a\emmlly a subj olH\vondcr ?d woni]r{le‘rln to er. Happy and easy will she be ifsoy:\:nk‘ind friend u"r’yner of lheyman'els of relief 1o be obtained by the use of ‘““Mother’s Friend"” There is nothing in the world like this simple liniment, used externally, It relaxes all strains and distensions, soothing headaches and nerv- ousness, as well asrelieving *‘morning sickness.” Of Druggists 181, o sens by express paid o receiot efprice. 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TURNER LiLLia. P {ever, the test was not satisfactory and Mr. | Hubbel was disappolnted. Albeit, he was |net discouraged a during the next {twenty-four hours he held other fortune telling pasties. It was during his third | seance that his efforts were rewarded. A tall, willowy brunette spelled the word |“very” with two “r's That night he reported progress ‘o the detectives. Miss Frazier was subjected to a sweatbox ordeal, In which she confessed | having written the warning letters. | Her father being notified by wire bas come to Omaha and taken his daughter home, where, he he will bave her | watched closely ustil he can have her ¢ | examived as to her meatal condition, He ment by means of bondwriting is common, [is a well-to-do farmer, living near Cal- but here is the case of a crask letter-|boun. Miss Frazier during her residence writer whose bad spelling was the means |in the city had become a convert to spirit- of ber undcirg, She habitual lled the |ualism word “very” with two “r's.”’ The detec- tives noticed it acted upon the tp and now Miss Nettle Frazier, whose sanity is questioned, is at her home under comstant | guard | Miss Frazier, a stenographer employed in a downtown law office, roomed at the Clar- endon, Twelfth and Castellar streets, a resepctable family hotel and a popular re- s0rt for young women stemographers, cash- lers and saleswomen. Recently the clerk has been rcce!ving amonymous letters pre- dicting that the botel would burn Novem- ber 15. He paid no attention to the first two or three, but when the fourth and finally the Afth arrived he began to get un- y and reported the matter to the police, es he feared the Cassandra would attempt | to fulfill ber own propuecy The case was placed in the hands of city detectives, They went sbout their task in tbe usual way by securing specimens of the | handwriting of all the women in the bouse, | but this avalied them nothing, as the chiro. | graphy of the seeress had been cunningly | disguised. Then one of them, who bhad learned t. spell in a district school, ob- served a defect in orthography. The word very,” which appeared in all of the letters | save ome, and o some of them several times, was remarkable for its prodigality | of “r's.” Now arose the question: How could they induce each of the eighteen women in the | house to write a semtence In which the word “very” appeared? To accomplish this delicate task the hotel clerk, Willlam Hubbel, was pressed into service, and he was equal to the emergency. The next day two of the young women, as they left the dining room, paused at his desk to chat | Clerk's Clever Ruse. “Did you have your fortunes told?” he| asked carelessly “No, I haven't—not answered one. “Why, dida't you see the gypsy fortune | teller who was arcund bhere this fore- | | noca ¥ | *“No; tell us about it.” | “Well, ber work was coarse. I can tell |fortunes as well as she and I don't use |cards, either. I go by the bandwriting al- | together.” | After a little more conversation in this line Mr. Hubbel succeeded in working the | curiosity of bis gues's to the necessary | pitch. He then suggested that they as- emble a halt-dozen other young women patrons of the house and he would enter- tain them at a fortune telling part; He bad them copy the sentence: very sorry to disappoint " correctly rendered in every far as the word “very’ wa Poor Ortbography of Miss Frazier Convicts Her of Freakish Act. HOTEL CLERK WARNED OF KINDLING FLAMES Strange Communication feetly Comstructed, Howeve Me Holds Fortane-Tellin, Which Reveal is Not Per- and Ascertaining the a American for Superintendent CHICAGO, Oct. 01.—D. H.Louderback of cago left last night on his way to Lon Where he i8 to take charge of the Cross d raiiroad, in which Charles T s and other Chicago and eastern capita sted. He wiil be the personal repr ve in Lon- don of the American syndicate and will as- e direction of the work as soon as he arrives there Mr. Louderback was selected to g0 to London because of his ong experience in the planning, promot- ing and bullding of the elevated railroad systems in Chicago r of a garbags le at the corner reets Wednesday 1 with such forc that he wa picked up in a »us condition taken to olice station, whers Drs. Ames and Ralph endeavored to ascer- tain whether or not his sku'l had been fractured, Devount lives at 1718 Jackson street, whither arrangements were made for removing him as soon as the extent of his injuries shall have been ascertained Charged with Blackmall. NEW YORK, Oct. 31—Leonard Watson, counsel for and assistant manager of the Wall Btreet Press; Joh of the paper, and Ferd an employe, were defendants in police court today on the charge of blackmail. The com- plainant s C. Morgan, a banker and broker. of afternoon. striking upon the stone Alvo Police NEW YORK, Oct —Cornelius_ L. Alvord, §r., the former teller of the First National bank. who embezzied 369,00 of the bank's funds, was rearraigned in police court today, but his examination was ad- journed until tomorrow Court. TRUSSES— ELASTIC STOCKINGS-— CRUTCHES— SUPPORTERS, etc, made to order by cormpetent workmea. for two year Bend to us for measurment blanks and other information. THE ALOE & PENFOLD CO., Beformity Brace Masulasturers 1608 Farnam OMAHA. Op. Paxtoa Hotel. 1T am This was fnstance, so0 concerned Don't You Know?— What we are offering planos and or- gans at? Why, every plano that goes from our house this week is sold at | factory prices and on very easy terms and if you want one you must bhurry we include standard makes and every thing else—pow s your time to buy that “BARGAIN" which you have been looking for the past six months—call and ask to be shown the wonderful self-playing “Apollo” piano attachment ~this is acknowledged by all to be the “ACME OF PERFECTION." A. HOSPE, Mosicasd AL 1613 Dosgles. Dis Am De Kin'o Weather— Wat pleases me—'car ¢ I can carry my new umbrella, an’ 1 kno' it's goln' | to git cold—an' when it does den de | people will buy more stoves, an' dat's wat I'm “harpin’ " on mow—Jist stoves —fur de reason dat my boss am got de best stoves wat's sold n dis town an’ his prices am away down low—an' be | sells on dat easy payment plan—Why should you hesitate when you can buy |de Favorite Base Burmer Stove for $19.50—nuthin’ better wade—or a good | Oak Heater for $4.98-an' dere's dut | Favorite Cook Stoye for $11.90—an’ de | Pavorite Steel Range for $20.80-We say, why sbould you hesitate’—If you do, you're lost, and dat ain’'t no lie. A. C. Raymer 1514 Farnam St.